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Enantiomeric amplification of amino acids: part 9
November 4, 2025 Creation Ministries International
enantiomeric separation via crystallization
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Hadrosaurs: Two Mummies, Two Surprises
November 4, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Field discovery keeps contradicting theoretical certainty -- and revealing wonder. Creation demands to be read, not rewritten.
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A Fake Headline, and a Real One, About DNA
November 3, 2025 Science & Culture Today
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Plant-like complexity evolved multiple times in different algae lineages, phylogenomics study reveals
November 3, 2025 phys.org
Land plants -- such as mosses, ferns and trees -- are some of the most structurally complex photosynthesizing organisms on Earth, but their evolutionary story is deeply tied to their ancestors
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Ancient lichen were “pioneers in the transformation of Earth’s surface”
November 3, 2025 connectsci.au
New fossil analysis shows lichens were widespread more than 400 million years ago (mya) and were crucial in the development of life on the planet including the earliest plants and animals.
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I’ve Realised Christianity Is More Plausible Than I Thought
November 3, 2025 YouTube
Taken from: From Survival to Scripture: Bear Grylls on Faith and Doubt
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Valuable misunderstandings
November 3, 2025 Aeon
Scientific progress depends on disagreement. So why are vaccine sceptics and other science critics not worth listening to?
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News Update/Commentary
Ancient fish with human-like hearing stuns scientists
November 3, 2025 Science Daily
researchers have redefined how freshwater fish evolved their advanced hearing systems.
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News Update/Commentary
Ancient viruses hidden inside bacteria could help defeat modern infections
November 3, 2025 Science Daily
Ancient viral fossils in bacteria may hold the secret to next-generation antiviral defenses.
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Why The Big Bang Was Not the Beginning
November 3, 2025 Curt Jaimungal
Penrose dismantles standard cosmology, arguing the Big Bang wasn't the beginning and quantum mechanics is fundamentally wrong
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What Intelligent Design Actually Is (and Isn’t)
November 3, 2025
Many people think Intelligent Design is just another word for creationism, but that’s not what scientists like Meyer are arguing. In this clip, Meyer defines Intelligent Design clearly
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Living in a 3-D World
November 3, 2025 Discovery Science
Human beings possess uncanny abilities to perceive and navigate within a three dimensional world. This episode of Secrets of the Human Body investigates the hidden systems that make our astounding spatial awareness possible.
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Junk DNA Can Fight Cancer
November 3, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Scientists now declare that parts of human DNA formerly thought of as “junk” have anti-cancer properties
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Why Materialism is Complete Nonsense
November 2, 2025 Alex O'Connor
Kastrup is a Dutch philosopher and computer scientist recognised for his contributions to consciousness studies, notably through his formulation of analytic idealism -- a variant of metaphysical idealism rooted in the analytic tradition.
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Should Christians Harness AI Chatbots as a Force for Good? Part 1
November 2, 2025 Mind Matters
In response to claims from a Christian ministry, as a Christian software developer, I offer some serious cautions
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists stunned as island spider loses half its genome
November 2, 2025 Science Daily
An island spider rewrites evolution’s rules by shrinking its genome while growing its genetic complexity.
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Decoding the Cosmos: God, Physics, and the Search for Deeper Explanation
November, 2025 Wipf and Stock
Qureshi-Hurst (University of Cambridge) takes five of Christianity's most important ideas -- creation, design, providence, incarnation, and salvation -- and examines them in light of cutting-edge physics.
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Can Science Deal with God?
November 1, 2025 Closer to Truth
Science can deal with God in at least three ways: showing how God is not necessary; showing how God is likely; not relating to God at all. Is only one way best? Atheists claim that scientific explanation eliminates for a ‘God of the gaps’.
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Nobel Laureate: “Quantum Mechanics Is Totally Wrong"
November 1, 2025 Curt Jaimungal
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Physicists Just Ruled Out The Universe Being a Simulation
November 1, 2025 Science Alert
A question that has vexed physicists for the past century may finally have a solution -- but perhaps not the one everyone was hoping for.
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News Update/Commentary
2 million-year-old teeth reveal secrets from the dawn of humanity
November 1, 2025 Science Daily
Ancient proteins from Paranthropus robustus teeth revealed unexpected genetic diversity, reshaping how scientists view this early human relative.
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Consciousness and Life After Death?
October 31, 2025 Closer to Truth
Life after death is explored in the context of diverse theories of consciousness, from strict Materialism/Physicalism to those of ancient wisdom traditions.
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Why Humans Aren’t Nearly as Close to Chimps as You Think
October 31, 2025 Intelligent Design the Future and Discovery Science
For decades, we’ve heard that humans and chimpanzees share 99% of their DNA. But is that really true? This episode unpacks the myth of human–chimp similarity and explains why new genetic research tells a very different story.
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Chimps Can Revise Their Beliefs When Shown New Evidence
October 31, 2025 Science Alert
Chimpanzees can change their minds when the facts no longer support their previous beliefs -- a rational level of thinking that was once considered uniquely human.
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists find “living fossil” fish hidden in museums for 150 years
October 31, 2025 Science Daily
The modern coelacanth fish is a famous ‘living fossil’, long thought to have died out, but first fished out of deep waters in the Indian Ocean in 1938.
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Denisovans may have interbred with mysterious group of ancient humans
October 31, 2025 New Scientist
We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of this species than we thought
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The Forces that Shape our Universe: Gravity
October 31, 2025 Science & Culture Today
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What’s New with Dinosaurs
October 31, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Here’s a list of recent findings about dinosaurs, including some surprises and upsets
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How General Revelation Can Inform a Theory of Biological Design
October 31, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
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Pseudogenes Are Not Pseudo Anymore
October 31, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
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Designed to Fill the Waters
October 31, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
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The Corruption of the Sciences Is Devastating Our Disciplines
October 30, 2025 Hot Air
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs
October 30, 2025 Science, v.390, n.6772, p.521-526
The ability of humans to think rationally and weigh the evidence when making a choice is well known. Such decision making requires a metacognitive process
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Extraterrestrials illustrated
October 30, 2025 Science, v.390, n.6772, p.450
A physicist and a cartoonist join forces with an accessible guide to thinking about life in the cosmos
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Chimpanzees are natural scientists
October 30, 2025 Science, v.390, n.6772, p.444-445
Humans and chimpanzees share the potential to rationally revise their beliefs
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Rebuilding trust in science requires confronting the harms of ghostwriting
October 30, 2025 Science, v.390, n.6772
Cleaning the scientific house
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New Scientific Discoveries & Their Impact on Theology
October 30, 2025
thoughts on some new discoveries in science, how they integrate with theology, and how they connect with his own work
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The Evolution of Human Intelligences
October 30, 2025 Hopkins Natural Philosophy Forum
A common model of AI suggests that there is a single measure of intelligence and that AI systems are agents who can possess more or less of this intelligence. Cognitive science, in contrast, suggests that there are multiple forms of intelligence
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Scientists Said 98% of Your DNA Was Useless (They Were Wrong)
October 30, 2025 Discovery Science
For decades, scientists claimed that most of your DNA was “junk,” meaningless leftovers of evolution. But new discoveries have flipped that story upside down. Researchers are finding that so-called junk DNA is anything but useless.
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News Update/Commentary
Hidden clues in ghostly particles could explain why we exist
October 30, 2025 Science Daily
Scientists working together across continents have made one of the most precise studies ever of mysterious particles called neutrinos.
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News Update/Commentary
Webb reveals the Universe’s first galaxies were a chaotic mess
October 30, 2025 Science Daily
These findings challenge earlier views of early galactic order and bridge the gap between the universe’s early chaos and the calmer “cosmic noon” era of peak star formation.
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Groupthink in science isn’t a problem; it’s a myth
October 30, 2025 Big Think
Scientists are notoriously resistant to new ideas. Are they falling prey to groupthink? Or are our current theories just that successful?
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On the State of Men and Reading
October 30, 2025 Mind Matters
Valuable advice to students: Learn how to read deeply
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Space travel: The future is slowly becoming everyday reality
October 30, 2025 Mind Matters
Catch the vibe at COSM 2025.
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Silurian Horseshoe Crab
October 30, 2025 Institute for Creation Research
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We need a new Turing test to assess AI’s real-world knowledge
October 29, 2025 Nature
A fresh set of benchmarks could help specialists to better understand artificial intelligence.
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7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
October 29, 2025 Nature
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier -- the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
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To make water, exoplanets might just need some pressure
October 29, 2025 Nature
A reaction between hydrogen and magma at high pressure can produce water, which might explain evidence for ‘wet planets’ in places where water can’t condense.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Building wet planets through high-pressure magma–hydrogen reactions
October 29, 2025 Nature, v.646, p.1069-1074
Planetary interior models based on their observed radius–mass relationship suggest that sub-Neptunes contain a discernible amount of either hydrogen (dry planets) or water (wet planets) blanketing a core composed of rocks and metal.
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Land plant evolution
October 29, 2025 Trends in Plant Science
from microbial interaction to horizontal gene transfer